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When an amorphous material is strained beyond the point of yielding it enters a state of continual reconfiguration via dissipative, avalanche-like slip events that relieve built-up local stress. However, how the statistics of such events…
Recently, the application of machine learning models has gained momentum in natural sciences and engineering, which is a natural fit due to the abundance of data in these fields. However, the modeling of physical processes from simulation…
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